TY - JOUR AU1 - Wellman, Mac AB - and on the roof of my head . . . — Mazzy Star pa rt 1 ( re d b u l l e t ) Once, at the beginning of time, the three fates, unpleasant young girls, enacted the story that was to become that of antigone. The three girls played all the parts with hats instead of masks, and a whole rack of customary costumery. A battlefield. Heaps of dead clothing. Dead clothing strewn all over. Three girls watch from a distance. Unknown god as a bodiless shadow approaches. As a swirl of fabric. I am the Shriek Operator, !∃. I am the unique situation. I am the uncanny and have come to this place, place crowded with corpses and the stench of death. I am the Shriek Operator and am very pleased with all this slaughter, this horror, this misfortune. Misfortune out of contrast, sprung hinges, what creaks, what is fundamentally broken. Sand pours without anyone willing it. Pours from above. From the sky. Something is covered. Something mangled and horribly dead. Pours. Horripilation. Who. Who did this? I am and I am not named Antigone, daughter of a man whose name. The one of TI - Antigone JF - Theater DO - 10.1215/01610775-32-2-63 DA - 2002-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/antigone-1XFIRpz0Cp SP - 63 VL - 32 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -